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 January 31, 2023 
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| Price | 
$23,179 | 
▲0.1% | 
 
| Hashrate | 
296 EH/s | 
▲1% | 
 
| Difficulty | 
39.35 T | 
▲4% | 
 
| Revenue* | 
$0.074 | 
▼5.1% | 
 
 
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 From Bars To Bitcoin tells the story of Justin Rhedrick, a former convict turned Bitcoin entrepreneur, who is on-boarding the global Black community to Bitcoin. 
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Mining News Feed
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 Decrypt / New Deal With NYDIG and B. Riley Cuts Bitcoin Miner Greenidge's Debt by $61M 
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 Bloomberg / BlockFi Approved to Set up Auction for Crypto Mining Business 
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 CoinDesk / BankProv Stops Offering Loans Collateralized With Crypto Mining Machines 
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| OP_Return, a function in Bitcoin allowing for the storage of very limited amounts of arbitrary data, is increasingly being used by NFT collectors through a scheme called "Ordinals." As such, the amount of OP_Return data has begun to increase again since December 2022. | 
 
 
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 Today we are joined by Greg Beard, CEO of Stronghold Digital Mining. Greg and I discuss Stronghold’s use of waste coal to clean up Pennsylvania and mine Bitcoin, how Bitcoin mining incentives land reclamation and the mining economics of vertical
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 Watch on YouTube here. 
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| Digihost | 
8.38% | 
$1.79 | 
$4.65 | 
 
| Core Scientific | 
7.95% | 
$0.36 | 
$11.49 | 
 
| Bitfarms | 
6.13% | 
$1.10 | 
$4.62 | 
 
| Canaan | 
4.58% | 
$3.50 | 
$6.90 | 
 
| Mawson | 
4.14% | 
$0.48 | 
$6.22 | 
 
 
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 *As of Tuesday, January 31 
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